Washington: India, currently the fourth largest energy consumer in the world, together with China will account for the biggest share of Asian energy demand growth through 2035, according to a new report. The fourth largest energy consumer after the United States, China, and Russia, India was the 10th largest economy in the world in 2011 [...]
Volvo is a manufacturer on a mission to make their cars the safest in the world. They try to push the technology forward more than any other manufacturer, and at this year’s edition of the Geneva Motor Show, they revealed a unique new safety system. It is called cyclist detection, but aside from doing the [...]
Beijing: Li Keqiang became Chinese premier Friday while General Fan Changlong and General Xu Qiliang were endorsed as vice chairmen of the country’s top military body at the annual parliamentary session. Li was endorsed at the ongoing session of the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC), the country’s top legislature, reported Xinhua. Nearly 3,000 NPC deputies [...]
Santiago: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera presided over the launch of the world’s largest astronomical observatory in the remote Atacama Desert of the northern Chilean Andes. Home to the world’s most powerful telescope, the Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the observatory is the result of a collaboration between Europe, the US, Japan and Chile, according to [...]
Geneva: Physicists found that the new particle discovered in July 2012 is “looking more and more like a Higgs boson” after analysing more data, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Thursday. “It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly [...]
Beijing: Xi Jinping Thursday became president of China, the world’s most populous and one of the most economically powerful nations, completing a once-in-a-decade crucial leadership change. He will also head its powerful military. Xi, 59 years old and a graduate of the country’s prestigious Tsinghua University, succeeded Hu Jintao. He was formally elected the president [...]
Washington: Mars could have harboured life, according to the analysis of a rock sample collected by the robot probe Curiosity, NASA reported. Scientists identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon in the sample, all of which are essential chemical ingredients for life as we know it. “A fundamental question for this mission is whether [...]
Bangalore: About 150 global firms, including Reliance Industries and HCL Technologies, made 415 lucrative job offers to 381 graduates of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) at the campus hiring here. “The final placement for the 2011-13 batch of post-graduate programme (PGP) saw global conglomerates offer leadership roles to our graduates for organisational transformation adapting [...]
New Delhi: India’s exports increased by 4.25 percent to $26.26 billion in February, registering positive growth for the second straight month, on the back of revival of demands in Europe, government data showed Monday. Trade deficit narrowed to $14.9 billion in February as compared to $20 billion the previous month. Exports has increased year-on-year just [...]
Seoul: North Korea has snapped a hotline with South Korea, authorities said here Monday. North Korea has reportedly severed an inter-Korean communication hotline following its threat to do so last week, the unification ministry said here. The ministry said North Koera seems to have cut the emergency link set up to deal with any contingency [...]
